Audience bonding Today I would like us to consider an eye covenant. I enjoy a good movie. My son and grandson just went to the movie theater for the first time in nearly two years. They saw Disney’s Jungle Cruise and thoroughly enjoyed it. My grandson came home and told me that I should watch …
So, the rating czars decided that a show containing violence, sex, and drug use was ok for fourteen-year-old kids. Wow.
Our spiritual “deflector shields” (nod to Star Trek) collapse from exhaustion, repetition, and alienation.
During this time of tumult and trouble that is ripping apart families and friends, neighbors and nations, we need to stop pretending that we’re ok. That’s what Adam and Eve did when they dressed in fig leaves. They were not “ok,” and neither are we.
When, after millennia, Jesus, the Son of God in the flesh, stepped into the history of humanity, people didn’t know what to think of Him.
There’s an aspect of this sin from which we all can learn and bolster our righteousness. Notice that Paul wrote, “make no provision.”
Leprosy was a “type” for sin: it was loathsome, spreading, incurable, and the Israelites were to avoid lepers. Yet Jesus, seeing the leper’s faith, reached into his condition, into “sin”, and touched the man.
For us that are in Christ Jesus, by faith children of God, to casually receive and allow worldly sins which the enemy of God uses to damn those made in God’s image to allow those sins to permeate our lives, now that is just unacceptable and needful of repentance.
What we must never do is to give up the fight. We mustn’t acquiesce for we have an advocate, Jesus Christ!
As we talked, my wife’s friend meticulously pulled each burr from the dog’s fur. Watching her, I realized that the dog required help, for the animal was unable to remove these painful burrs herself.
